Lawmakers have just proposed a dozen bills that would overhaul residential care facilities for the elderly, or RCFEs. The measures included in the RCFE Reform Act of 2014 would address a variety of medical mistakes and errors stemming from poor oversight and lack of training for long-term care facility staff.

New Developments in RCFE Reform

An investigation of 7,000 state records of assisted-living center inspections by U-T San Diego and the California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting is a major step forward in how we begin to deal with existing facilities and determine what the next generation of long-term care facilities needs to look like in the future. [Read more…]

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